joyfulmomofmany: For the Love of Aprons

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

For the Love of Aprons

It's not secret that I love aprons! The girls and I wear aprons almost every day.

Not only do aprons fulfill the practical purpose of keeping clothing clean, they also have so many other practical uses:

they are handy for wiping tears from little faces. : (
super for carrying home eggs from the chicken coop.
pockets are always available to stash the random pieces of "life" that I find when picking up around the house.
handy for giving a haircut! (Tom has even been known to wear one of my pretty floral aprons to cut the boys' hair!)
I love to wear a full apron when working on starting my little seedlings as the dirt can easily be contained that way.
I almost always wear an apron when I am working with our animals on our little homestead.
super for gardening. I have plans to make a new gardening apron for this year that can readily hold some of my more necessary tools.

Aprons somehow make me feel more "professional" in whatever domestic job I am doing. They are both practical and feminine; but more importantly, they speak positively of the domesticity that I have embraced as I serve my family. Pretty aprons tell my family and anyone else who stops by that I am very happily employed as "mommy" to my brood.

Are you interested in learning to sew? Aprons are a super-easy introduction to sewing. Here are some helpful links to free online patterns for aprons! Look here and here for lots of wonderful patterns!

I love this idea for a "gathering apron!" Definitely an idea that I want to modify and use here this spring/summer!

Look at these unique aprons that my dear Mother-in-law made for the girls and I!

Here's another picture of Abbie holding one of the aprons so you can get a better idea of the unique design. Plus, I don't know if you can tell from the photo, but they are reversible too, with pockets on both sides! Fun!